WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Changing of the Guard? 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.240 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:15.000 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.919 for a break. Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:23.480 time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Wall 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:30.160 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:34.559 It is Wednesday, November seven, twenty eighteen, Seaton fourteen, Episode 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.720 number seventy five. Welcome to another edition of The Break, 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.279 live from the s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.720 We appreciate you guys joining us today. We're ready to 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.120 talk to some Cowboys football with you for the next hour. 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:50.800 Dave has his assessment of the Philadelphia Eagle offense that'll 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.080 be coming up here in just a little while. Before 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.000 we get to that, though, I want to talk a 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.280 little bit about Connor Williams and the offensive line. Find 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.880 out yesterday the Connor Williams has a knee injury. It 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.480 sounds like there's a possibility he could need a scope. 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.120 Was that updated at all? He's getting the scope. He 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.040 is getting the scope, so he is going to have 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.640 to have authroscopic surgery on his knee. How long does 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:13.520 that mean he's out? What are we looking at here? 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.240 That's the conversation that we had about Randy Gregory with 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.640 like you said, it's not surgery. That's what you said 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.200 a few weeks ago. So I don't know they're going 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:22.720 at Jason Garrett said he thinks it's going to be 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:24.760 short term. That's crazy to me. I mean, I thought 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.800 Randy was a short term. Well they still they still 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.600 you're right, but short term as a meaning he doesn't 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.240 need to go on I r M. I think they're 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.199 hopeful he can be back in two to three weeks. 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.039 They'll have to wait and see. Randy Gregory's not back 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.959 and he had his the week heading into the bye. 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:45.080 So yesterday you were talking about and maybe stepping in 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.000 and there you go. It sounds like it's going to 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:51.040 be a competition this week between Xavier Suaphilo and Adam Redmond. Okay, 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:52.840 so let me ask you this there. In my opinion, 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.000 there are kind of three scenarios that you can go 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:56.600 with this. And I like to always do this when 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.680 we ask these kinds of questions. I want you to 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.920 first tell me what you think the Cowboys are going 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.120 to do and then I want you to tell me 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.480 if you think that's the right thing to do. What 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.560 they're gonna do is next man up. They're gonna say, well, 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.360 you practice here and you'll probably be a next man up. 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.480 This guy. I mean, I would imagine it's something like that, 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.040 Sue a Philo or Redman, because you've been playing guard 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:19.920 and why I moved two spots to play guard. But 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.440 the reason why I think you do move two spots 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.880 because Fletcher Cox is sitting over there and he's pretty 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:30.520 good and somebody needs to be able to block him. Okay, 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.799 he is playing, right, So he's playing and he's really 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.240 really really good. He is really good, and okay, so 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:37.760 there are there are a couple of different options here. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:39.799 I think the first option you mentioned you got sue 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.000 a Philo. You can just throw him in, right. I 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:43.880 want to well, I want to hear Nick's opinion, like, 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:45.480 what do you think they should do? I think they 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.280 should put Lyle Collins over there to play guard because 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.000 I don't think Lyle's playing very well at tackle and 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.560 I think and you guys talked about it on the 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.680 show the other night. Brian said it on The Happy Hour, 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.200 which was not happy It wasn't a happy hour at all. 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.200 But it's the same approach that the Saints have always 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.920 done with. Get the guards set and let Drew Brees 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.280 get the middle in the center take care of that, 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.760 and that's where the pocket collapses. And I think maybe 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:16.799 they do need a little bit more beef inside, so 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.200 healthy knees or not for Connor Williams, I think I 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.880 think they need to consider having somebody better on the inside. 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:25.920 So I like, this is a good opportunity for me 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.160 to go, Lyle call its inside. Okay, So so that 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.560 would be one option, Lyle Collins inside and you put 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.320 camera Fleming, I would assume at right tackle sure, all right. 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.840 The other option would be you just plug in Xavier 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.160 to a Philo. The other option could be used plug 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.760 in Adam Redman or the other option, this is the 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.120 fourth option you could take Joe Looney, move him over 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.600 to guard, put Adam Adam Redman in as your center. 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.440 So all those being considered, Nick, you say you'd rather 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.760 see Lyle move in and put camera Fleming out there. Dave, 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.600 which way would you go? I think? And to be fair, 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.400 I think the Cowboys are going to consider or all 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.760 of that. Jason Garrett kind of hinted at that. I 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.080 think obviously they would prefer that one of these two 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.320 guys can just step into the guard spot and play 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.160 well enough that it's not a big deal. But I mean, 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.000 if it looks atrocious in practice, I don't think that 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.640 they're opposed to moving Looney. And if it really looks atrocious, 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.920 I think they could consider putting Lyle. But I would 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:23.800 guess with three options, like moving Lyle feels like a 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.640 break glass in case of emergency type of thing, and 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.640 I'd be kind of surprised if it got to that point. 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:35.200 So I assume that it'll be Redmond or Suaphilo. That's 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:36.720 my guess. What do you think is the right way? 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:41.640 Probably that I hear what Nick saying, But is Lyle 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.359 Collins just gonna step into the guard for the first 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.360 time in a year and a half, no, like two 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.760 plus years, because he didn't even play in twenty sixteen 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.600 because of his injury. He literally he hasn't played left 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.280 guard since the twenty fifteen season. You're gonna ask him 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:58.840 to do that on the fly and play against a 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.559 guy like Fletcher Cox. Yeah, and when you have guys 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.440 the other options, especially when you have guys that are 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.760 able to play at that position or have played at 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.680 that position before. You you have the ability to do that, 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.440 even though, yes, some things don't go as planned and 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.599 something's just happening out of nowhere. But I think that 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:22.040 when the opportunity presents itself in a scenario like this, 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.800 why not go for it? And then Jason Garry kind 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:28.280 of say something about then having some talks about it, 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.279 that that we're going to discuss it. It sound like 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.039 he did, but it also sounds like it was kind 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.840 of a as Dave said, kind of they don't want 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:36.280 to ask in case of murder, They don't really want 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:37.960 to say that. They think of him as a tackle. 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:39.800 That's what those are the words that he thought of 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.320 him as a guard for like two years. Of course 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.760 he's gonna say that because he's a tackle now and 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:48.120 they may not move, so of course he's gonna a 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:52.599 bid abide. Is that the right word? A word? Yeah? Wow, 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.520 geez it works all right, It's gonna bide to that. 0:05:55.839 --> 0:06:00.320 There you go. Yeah. I mean, football teams always think like, well, 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.120 we see him as a guard, but then when they 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.040 change their mind, they see him as a tackle, and 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.479 we're the dumb ones for questioning it, like that's the 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.760 way that works. So, Alaron Jones was definitely a safe. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.040 Iron Jones is safety, and well now we see him 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:16.000 as a corner, and you were dumb. You were dumb 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.159 until we agreed with you, and now it makes sense. 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:23.000 Um point. But I I don't know. I don't. Lyle 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.400 Collins hasn't he has not had a good season, and 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.520 so is shifting. Is he gonna play better at guard 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.160 magically after two years off? And I y'all already both 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:35.280 y'all already both said yes, So clearly I know how 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:39.400 you feel. Um, I don't. I don't know. I don't think. 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.040 I don't really, I don't think I buy it. I 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.200 don't think he's going to play like like at an 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.640 all pro level or even at a at a really 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.960 really good level. But I do think that when when 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.839 I look at my options and think, okay, Cameron Fleming 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.760 started in the Super Bowl, played against the Eagles, I'd 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:58.400 be the reason they let him go. But I don't know. 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.200 I don't know exactly how he played in that game. Game. 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.360 I know that the Brady was running for his life, 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.360 but I do you know he started that game? He 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.040 faced the Eagles. I like him out there to tackle. 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.960 I like Lyle. I like that better than I think 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.600 there there's I don't think you're wrong. Like I don't 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.560 think they're gonna do it though, which is maybe why 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:16.560 I'm not following you there. But I don't. I don't 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.920 think you're wrong. Yeah. Um, I hate the fourth option. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:24.240 I hate that one because that's that's a two persona 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.520 that's moving two spots. And well, you're talking about moving 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.920 two spots, all right, I know, let me finish. That's 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:33.440 moving two spots and it includes Adam Redman and Looney 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.640 in the middle with Fletcher Cox there. I hate that. 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.120 I like you're saying you don't want two new spots 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.720 in the middle. I don't. I don't want two new spots. 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.640 If if it's two guys that are that are playing 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.520 that are that are really inexperience, then I think Lyle 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.400 Collins and Cameron Fleming have more experience that I know 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.640 they have more experience playing those positions than Looney and Redman. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.559 I'm really not trying to put Redman on the field. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:01.440 I will say this, it's if especially how it's been 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.120 the offensive line right now, Yeah, it's been a mess. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.000 If that happens, then it will then you will have 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.400 been very right in the sense of I really think 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:14.080 if Redmond or Stu a Philo even looks like competent, 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.360 I think that's what they'll roll with. And so if 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.760 they do something like move ly l it's because those 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:23.360 guys are horrendous and like, how horrendous can you even 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:27.280 be in a non contact practice? You know, so they 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.120 would have to really be bad for them to be 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.839 that non contact because David Irving's getting carted off through 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:37.240 you know, it's high ankle. Again. That's the problem being conservative. 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:42.080 That's the problem that they've had so far. Yes, yes, you, 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.760 I mean you're fighting for your job right now, you're 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.760 fighting for your life pretty much, because yeah, it is 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.160 what it is. But it's like, why be conservative? So 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.920 if I'm the cowboys and that's my first thought, start 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.440 going with your second thought, what would I not do? 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.839 Skip over that the next what would I not do? 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.960 And do that instead? And I might just start working 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:07.960 on deep balls if you did that. What I what 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:09.920 I like about what you guys are saying, really more 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:11.920 than anything else, is if you start thinking about it 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:13.560 from the standpoint of who are your best five, and 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:14.960 you hear that a lot when you start talking about 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.319 offensive lines, who are your best five that I think 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.080 Cameron Fleming is probably gonna be among that group before 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.719 you would put Adam Redman or before you would put Sulphilo. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.000 So if that's the case and you're trying to get 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.400 your best five on the field, then it may have 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.080 to mean you move a Lyle Collins. Now I agree 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.240 with you, Dave. They're not gonna do it. I think 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:33.760 at the end of the day, they prefer to have 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:38.440 one thing change versus half two things change, especially when 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:40.679 they've prepared and we talk about it a lot, and 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.120 we give them a lot of flak for this in 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.080 the past. When they do it, you get a guy 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.439 prepared all offseason and you get him into the season 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.439 to play a particular position, and then all of a sudden, 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.000 you say, and now you're gonna do something else. He 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.600 has been preparing. I'm talking about Lyle. He has been 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.280 preparing as a tackle. He has been playing as a tackle. 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.600 It's been two years since he played guard. Thinking that 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.000 all of a sudden in a week he can in 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.120 a short week, by the way he can now make 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.800 the transition over to tackle. I'm sorry, he's been playing guard. 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:09.520 He's been playing tackle. That's to be able to move 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.120 over to card. That's a lot to expect him to 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.040 be able to do again when you're going up against 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.600 Fletcher Cocks. Today's today's practice as a walkthrough because of 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.640 the short weeks, so you're really even you're saying, figure 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.120 this out in two practices and you're going up against 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:26.240 one of the best defensive tackles in the league. I'm 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.839 about to say something really cynical, like even for me, 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.840 but can't be too cynical for you. You're right, But 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.920 the way, the way the Cowboys would do this is 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.040 role with what they got. You know, keep Lyle where 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.079 he is and Fletcher Cox will eat dak alive and 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.440 then they'll make the switch for Atlanta, like that's what 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.959 they'll do and be like, well, we think Lyle can 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:51.720 play guard now hopefully after Fletcher Hopefully this is not 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:55.120 Atlanta and they let let him get sacked nine times 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.400 whatever number of times it was before they would do it. 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.760 If you get into the game and it starts to 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.400 be a problem, flip it. I mean, it's just that 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:04.600 you can't let that happen. An entire game like they did. 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.400 You can't even go into the game like that. Okay, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.400 Connor Williams is supposed to be better than your backups, right, 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.559 you would think, you would think, Although I did bring 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.400 up the question last night on our show on the 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:20.440 Happy Hour of because Connor is still a rookie and 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.360 because he's still making rookie mistakes like he hasn't had 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:24.960 there have been a lot of games where there have 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.240 been moments where it's like, oh, what's what's Connor doing? 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:30.080 So with a guy like let's say Sue a Philo 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.360 or with Redman, they have a little more experience than 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.720 he does, could you possibly get better play from them? 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.720 Not saying that they will ever be as good as 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.200 what Connor is expected to be in future years, but 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.559 because he's still a rookie and still doesn't have the 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.120 size and the strength and the experience that you really 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.120 want him to have in order to be really successful, 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.679 are you actually getting maybe a little better player in 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.520 that spot than what you have right now with Connor? 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.800 That's gonna be their hope, and that's why I think 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.000 they'll probably stick stick with it. You know, the next 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.480 man up, they'll say, and at least try sue Philo's 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:03.559 you know, he's been in the league for five years. 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:07.400 He started a couple dozen games in Houston, whatever it was. 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:08.960 I mean, he was a second round pick. He's a 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.520 guy that that the Texans tried to you know, they 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.800 expected him to be a starter. So he's got the experience, 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.200 and I'm sure that's what their mindset will be, that 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:18.560 maybe this guy's not that big of a drop off 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:22.040 from a rookie. That makes sense. I mean, they're going 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.480 to sell it like he was a second round pick. Um, 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.680 but he was also a cut. You know, he was cut. 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.360 I mean, Chas Green was a third round pick and 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.080 he's not in the league. Ry he is in the league. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.280 He's every pig. Didn't turn out the way you expected, 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.120 you can, they're gonna have a little reunion between him 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.000 and Dez. I don't even think about that. Um, yeah, 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.440 what else was? Oh? I was gonna say either way, 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.840 I bet you, I bet you that there won't be 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:48.280 an inactive offensive lineman this week. They can't afford to 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.080 have one, can't. I bet there will be Hunter. Oh, 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:55.240 you're right, I'm okay. Among the healthy guys. All right, 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:56.920 we're gonna take our first break. 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We 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:37.560 just spent the whole first second talking about the Cowboys. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:41.720 I think the Eagles are going through their own pains, 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.880 mainly because of injuries. Remember Jason Peters missed most of 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.080 last season. He's been in and out of the lineup 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.680 with his own problems. Lane Johnson is another guy who's 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:54.360 missed some games, and this line has has suffered for it. 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.600 The Eagles are not a whole lot better than the 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:02.000 Cowboys in terms of protection. They've allowed twenty six sacks 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.760 this season. I think it's hindered their offense. Um. You know, 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.000 you know, if you pay attention to just looking around 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:10.880 the league, like there's been a lot of talk about 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.120 you know, five alarm fire, Like, oh my god, the Eagles, 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:17.800 they're they're terrible. I didn't see that. Um, their line, 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.080 their line needs some work. They're not scoring as many 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.760 points as you would assume. But this this still looks 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.880 like the same talented group from last year. Like again, 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.760 Carson Wentz, people are like, oh, he doesn't look the 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:32.720 same since his injury. I didn't see that. Um, he's 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.720 completing seventy one percent. He has thirteen touchdowns and two 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.400 interceptions in the sixth starts since he came back in 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:43.200 Week three. I think pretty healthy number. Yeah. No, he's 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.160 he's playing really well and I'm sure he's still getting 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.120 acclimated after the injury. He doesn't run as much, he's 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.920 only running like three times per game. But he's still 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.120 an athletic guy too, Like he can pick up yards 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.240 with his feed. He's big, he's super and and he's 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.720 he's surprisingly athletic for like the bag prototypical. You know, 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.240 he looks like a statue quarterback, but he's not. In 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:08.000 this last game against Jacksonville, third and third and three, 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:10.520 he tries to throw for the first down and the 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.840 ball gets batted back in his face. He adjust catches 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:15.840 it and runs forward and dives for the first down 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.840 like he can be the closest to Cam Newton in 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.080 the NFL. When you talk size, I mean, obviously I 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.080 think he throws much better than Cam. But when you're 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:28.080 talking size and when you're talking athleticism, is he the 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.800 closest that there is to Cam in the league. That 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.120 feels fair to me. Trying my best to think about 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.359 other quarterbacks in the league, I just don't think anybody 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.000 else has that kind of size. I can't see a 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.840 big dude. I don't think he's not as athletic as Cam, 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.720 but he's still nobody's as Cam. But maybe the closest 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:49.240 approximation I would think to Cam good. But uh, A 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.399 lot of this personnel looks the same. Zach Ertz. I 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.240 get why. I get why Jason Witten gave him his jersey. 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.399 I think he probably honestly is the best tight end 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:01.120 in football right now, maybe better than Kelsey. I think 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.640 he's more well rounded. I think he's a better blocker 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:05.320 and can do all that tight that type of stuff. 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.000 He's got sixty one catches for six hundred eighty yards 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:11.560 right now. He's easily you know, he's their primary look. 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.639 And then you have Alshon, Jeffrey, Nelson Agilore, and of 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:17.440 course a guy who I haven't seen with the Eagles yet, 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.560 Golden Tate Goldie. I'm interested to see how that goes. 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:22.960 I think I read some Eagles writers said that they 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:27.680 think Tate's gonna play primarily slot, which means Nelson Agilore 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:31.920 probably moves outside a little bit. And then the biggest 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.080 difference with this team right now is, you know they 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.680 had Jagi and La Garrett Blunt last year. Those guys 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:40.400 are gone. They do it more so by committee than 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.800 any team we've seen. They got like five guys. Wendel 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:47.159 Smallwood is listed as the starter. They also have Corey 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.760 Clement and then Josh Adams, who is a Notre Dame 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:54.879 running back, Big six three two, twenty dude and fun times. 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.360 Darren Sprowles is coming back this week. He'll be back. 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.119 It's been out since week one. I think we all 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.280 know what he can do and what he has done 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:05.880 to this team. So they got they got four guys, 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:09.159 they're going to use them all. Um. I think Smallwood 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.640 and Adams are their best runners. And then Darren Sprowles 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.040 is one of the best receiving running backs of the 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.040 last twenty years. So are those offensive lineman you mentioned 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.119 are they all still healthy? Are they healthy at this 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.080 point or is a situation where they're still kind of 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:25.159 gimpy not really playing? Lane Johnson is expected to play, 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.239 but he's been limited. He's he's gimpy. And then lay 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.000 did he play the last game? No? Um? And then 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.760 Jay's I'm sorry, no he did. I'm sorry he did. Um. 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:37.480 And then Jason Peters he's got like a quad thing 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:41.320 and a biceps thing and so he's not completely healthy, 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.280 but he's still Jason Peters did he play the last game? Yes? 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:46.679 So both of them played the last game. Did just 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.719 both hurt? Yeah? And the line has suffered for it. 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:54.440 But they're still talented guys, sat, I mean, so, um, 0:19:56.040 --> 0:20:00.199 they've had their issues. But this offense looks similar to 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:02.600 me to what we saw last year. You know, people 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.720 call him, oh sorry, people call him a college offense, 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:08.960 like there's a you know, kind of like not as 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.880 not as not as weird, for lack of a better word, 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:15.119 than Houston with the stuff they do with you know, 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:17.640 when Kiki qts moving all around, but there's a lot 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.960 of wide receiver motion. Agalore moves from the backfield into 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.480 the slot and vice versa. They do you know, the 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.240 jet action, play action. There's usually some sort of play 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:28.560 action with either a running back or a wide receiver 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.800 on the vast majority of their plays and wins. His 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.080 athleticism plays into that. It's it's the new wave in 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:36.960 the NFL. I feel like we talk about it more 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.680 often than not, But I think the reports of their 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.080 demise have been exaggerated a little bit. They still look 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.080 plenty scary to me. When teams have stopped them. What 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.639 have they done? It's gotten to wins. I mean twenty 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:51.480 six sacks and you see it. Going back to Nick's 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:54.920 point from the beginning of the show, teams collapse the 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:58.000 pocket on him and I don't. He doesn't. Like I said, 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.000 he's still athletic, but he doesn't want to move. I 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:02.920 think I think that's in the back of his head 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:04.800 as well. It probably should be. I mean, his season 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:08.800 was ended on a scramble play. Uh and so he 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:11.159 takes sacks, you can affect him in the pocket. I 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:13.560 don't think he's as willing to extend plays as he 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:16.560 used to be. Uh, and you throw him off. That's 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:20.160 when teams have limited them that I've seen really important. 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:22.639 David Irving can play this week. If he can, if 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.280 he comes back from an ankle injury. We'll see if 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:28.160 he practices today or what he was doing. I don't 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:32.560 he wasn't out there again, It's yeah, this is a way, yeah, 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:36.680 but yeah, I just feel like and I know that 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.359 that Um Ross played well, Daniel Ross played well, but 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:41.600 you got to I mean that they have good center, 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:44.040 you've you've have great center. You've got to be able 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:47.639 to affect them in the pocket like that. So I 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:50.560 think it's it's important if somehow he can play more 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:53.359 so than Gregory. Gregory might play, But I mean, I 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:56.000 feel like you've got to have some defensive tackle play 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:58.520 there because he's a guy that that has the ability 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:01.640 extend plays. Though because of his size, even when you're 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:03.800 trying you get to him, it's hard to bring him down. 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:06.119 I've seen him make a lot of throws with guys 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:08.919 hanging off of him, right, Do you in a situation 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:11.639 like that, do you think maybe the Cowboys kind of 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:13.879 back off a little bit from blitzing and try to 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:16.560 just keep as many guys in coverage as possible to 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:18.439 make it hard for him to make that throw. Or 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:19.960 do you just kind of go at him and get 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:22.520 really aggressive with going after him even though that you know, 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:24.840 there may be some plays where you get exposed a 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:26.640 little bit because he extends to play because you can't 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:29.920 get him down. Those backs catch the ball, though, don't they. Yes, 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:31.760 they do well, Yes, it makes it hard to know 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:36.240 they do. It's it's gonna be interesting because we haven't 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:39.240 really seen it. Smallwood and Clement catch the ball. They've 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:41.920 got twenty nine total receptions this year. But Sprowls is 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:44.159 back and that's what he does, that's all, that's what 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:46.960 he does best. Yeah, and so I think you're definitely 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:48.760 going to see an element of that which I don't 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:50.720 like the idea of bringing a lot of pressure because 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:54.040 I'm sitting here, like they don't, you know, this team 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:57.439 doesn't have that like Burner, like Deshaun Jackson, who's just 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:00.479 gonna get behind you and go to the house. But 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:04.800 Alshan Jeffrey's huge. I mean, you know, you talk about 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:07.240 traveling Byron Jones. I don't mind the thought of Byron 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:10.679 Jones following him around because he's gonna he's a contested 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:15.040 ball phenom. You add Golden Tate. We already saw what 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:18.840 Golden Tate can do to this defense. Two chunk play touchdowns. 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:22.639 Somebody's gotta cover Zach Ertz. I think Layton vander esh 0:23:22.680 --> 0:23:25.320 and Jalen Smith are athletic guys who can handle that, 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:30.000 but Ertz as a different animal. So the more pressure 0:23:30.000 --> 0:23:31.720 you're bringing, the less guys you have around to deal 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:33.320 with all this stuff. That kind of scares me, to 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:36.600 be honest, But I honestly am wondering though if with 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:39.840 the guys you currently have in your secondary, I don't 0:23:39.840 --> 0:23:41.800 know if I really trust the fact that in zone 0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:44.480 covers they're going to be able to really affect the 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:46.840 passing games. I'm almost like, hey, you just have to 0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:49.760 take your chances and be a lot more aggressive, because 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:51.840 I certainly don't like to match up of Anthony Brown's 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:54.360 slot against Golden Tate. If you if you're gonna try 0:23:54.400 --> 0:23:56.320 to man up, or if you're gonna try to, you know, 0:23:56.359 --> 0:23:58.000 try to take these guys one on one. I just 0:23:58.080 --> 0:24:00.000 I think it's you probably are in a better position 0:24:00.000 --> 0:24:04.040 is if you give them less time and send some pression. 0:24:04.080 --> 0:24:05.480 I'm not saying you have to do that the whole game, 0:24:05.480 --> 0:24:06.919 but I do think they got to find their spots 0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:09.520 here to be aggressive and really go after him and 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:11.640 not let him sit back there and figure out where 0:24:11.640 --> 0:24:13.320 he wants to throw the ball. I take that back 0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:15.840 what I said about Gregory. I do need him to 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:18.760 play because what that does that puts Tyron Crawford back 0:24:18.760 --> 0:24:20.439 in the middle, and that's where he needs to be 0:24:20.520 --> 0:24:22.439 rushing from. And then you got better rushers if you 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:27.440 can get Crawford inside and Gregory on the outside. He's 0:24:27.480 --> 0:24:30.280 way more disruptive in the middle than eating outside. Yeah, 0:24:30.720 --> 0:24:35.240 and that's again pushing, you know, not so much concerned 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:38.520 about coming around the edge as disrupting the pocket, making 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:42.160 Wins have to move, making him uncomfortable because he's athletic 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:45.119 enough and they do enough stuff with play action that 0:24:46.000 --> 0:24:48.680 I think Wins can limit the effect that like a 0:24:48.760 --> 0:24:51.080 DeMarcus Lawrence has on this game just through his own 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:54.520 natural The linebackers did not play well last game. I mean, 0:24:54.640 --> 0:24:57.840 that was not the good game for vanderash or Jalen Smith. 0:24:57.880 --> 0:24:59.400 They might have had a lot of tackles, but they 0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:01.800 have probably had a lot of miss tackles too, and 0:25:01.800 --> 0:25:04.480 so just moments when they couldn't get out of the trash, right, yea. 0:25:04.840 --> 0:25:12.600 So on the eagle talk whatever that's called the bird chat? Yeh, 0:25:13.200 --> 0:25:20.520 eggles hour Eagles hour, Eagles eggles eggles our eggles Yeah, 0:25:20.840 --> 0:25:23.240 huh Eagles. I don't know. I haven't really hung out 0:25:23.240 --> 0:25:25.320 with one lately, so I don't know. Is that not 0:25:25.359 --> 0:25:27.760 how they sound? It doesn't seem right. Do you think 0:25:27.800 --> 0:25:31.280 they sound? Oh? No, but that's another type of bird. 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:34.840 Get your birds ride there. The stats, the stats say 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:38.119 that this isn't an impressive offense. Uh, their middle of 0:25:38.119 --> 0:25:40.199 the pack. They don't run the ball as well as 0:25:40.200 --> 0:25:43.280 they did last year without a GII. They're not scoring now. 0:25:43.280 --> 0:25:44.760 It's part of that when you look in at season 0:25:44.800 --> 0:25:47.480 stats for them, though. It it factors in the games 0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:49.399 that WinCE wasn't playing though, right, how many games he 0:25:49.440 --> 0:25:52.480 did WinCE against the Holy missed two? So I don't 0:25:52.520 --> 0:25:54.960 know that. So they have what six games he's played, 0:25:55.000 --> 0:25:58.120 he's started six started six hasn't been great in those 0:25:58.160 --> 0:26:01.040 six I mean he had and they've had their issues 0:26:01.080 --> 0:26:03.800 like that's I mean, you know, you I follow I 0:26:03.920 --> 0:26:05.840 follow media for everybody in the league. I follow a 0:26:05.840 --> 0:26:09.840 ton of Philly media, and they they talk about this 0:26:09.880 --> 0:26:12.600 team like they're like, what the hell is wrong with 0:26:12.600 --> 0:26:14.720 this offense? Which they're four and four. They've already lost 0:26:14.760 --> 0:26:16.479 more games than they did all of last seasons, so 0:26:16.520 --> 0:26:21.639 I get it. But the talent here is still plenty 0:26:21.640 --> 0:26:24.879 impressive to me. And also they're coming off a couple 0:26:24.880 --> 0:26:28.159 of games where they've played better than they had. I mean, 0:26:28.240 --> 0:26:30.399 last year they could just flat out running games like 0:26:30.560 --> 0:26:33.280 they would get the situations where they could just saddle 0:26:33.359 --> 0:26:35.280 up and run the ball, and they can't. I don't 0:26:35.280 --> 0:26:37.520 think they can do do not. I do not think 0:26:37.560 --> 0:26:40.320 they're gonna just line up and bowl this team over that, 0:26:40.440 --> 0:26:42.800 you know, the way a giy and blunted last year. 0:26:43.040 --> 0:26:45.760 You know, we thought that the Cowboys had a long 0:26:45.800 --> 0:26:50.119 break on a Monday night game after a buye Is 0:26:50.160 --> 0:26:53.600 this right? Then? The Eagles play Thursday night against the Giants. No, 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:57.320 well they actually the Eagles missing you skipped. Well, the 0:26:57.359 --> 0:26:59.479 Eagles went to London and beat Jacksonville. That was their 0:26:59.560 --> 0:27:02.240 last game. Okay, the action, which it's thrilled pretty long break. 0:27:02.320 --> 0:27:05.840 I'm sure we'll get that's but I'm I know there 0:27:05.880 --> 0:27:08.239 are Cowboys fans that are pissed because the Cowboys are 0:27:08.280 --> 0:27:10.280 on a short week playing an Eagles team that's been 0:27:10.320 --> 0:27:12.840 on its by, which doesn't seem like you're want to 0:27:12.880 --> 0:27:14.879 do that with division teams especially. It doesn't seem like 0:27:14.880 --> 0:27:17.959 a great scheduling call by the NFL. But like somebody 0:27:17.960 --> 0:27:21.200 gets screwed by the schedule every year, like it's play 0:27:21.320 --> 0:27:24.320 this week Atlanta is playing. I don't know, buy are 0:27:24.359 --> 0:27:26.359 they No, they're not on a buy it's gonna say, 0:27:26.400 --> 0:27:27.840 because that would saw them in the picks, But I 0:27:27.880 --> 0:27:30.200 don't remember. That would be three games their favorite though, 0:27:30.240 --> 0:27:33.840 I think I don't know. I think not. That's three 0:27:33.880 --> 0:27:37.520 straight games that Cowboys would face. Somebody coming on and buy. No, No, 0:27:37.600 --> 0:27:40.199 they're I'm pretty sure they're playing this week, gotcha. I'm 0:27:40.200 --> 0:27:41.840 pretty sure they're playing to say, all right, we're gonna 0:27:41.840 --> 0:27:43.760 take our final break when we come back. I want 0:27:43.800 --> 0:27:45.680 to get some calls, calls eight eight eight eight five 0:27:45.800 --> 0:27:47.960 five two two nine seven. Again it is eight eight 0:27:48.000 --> 0:27:50.400 eight eight five five two two nine seven. We'll also 0:27:50.440 --> 0:27:53.199 get some reaction from these guys on the impending signing 0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:55.880 of one Dez Bryant. It sounds like in New Orleans. 0:27:55.920 --> 0:27:57.200 We'll talk about that when we come right back. 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A 0:29:56.680 --> 0:30:00.240 man's stepson doesn't just protect him from life's element, it 0:30:00.440 --> 0:30:04.160 projects an unstoppable and legendary spirit, just like the men 0:30:04.240 --> 0:30:07.240 wearing silver and Navy on the field every Sunday. Since 0:30:07.280 --> 0:30:10.479 eighteen sixty five, stets and Hats are American made with 0:30:10.560 --> 0:30:13.600 pride right here in Texas. They are still the official 0:30:13.640 --> 0:30:17.480 crown of all self prospecting Cowboys, and Stetson is proud 0:30:17.520 --> 0:30:20.560 to be on the field with America's team. Find steps 0:30:20.600 --> 0:30:24.720 and Hats in the Pro Shop or at Stetson dot com. Today. 0:30:27.080 --> 0:30:30.280 Back to the Break Welcome Back. It's the final segment 0:30:30.280 --> 0:30:32.480 of the Break Life from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. 0:30:32.520 --> 0:30:34.240 At the Star, Nick tell us about Tommy. You know 0:30:34.280 --> 0:30:37.120 what I mean, everyone knows right now how good Tommy 0:30:37.200 --> 0:30:40.440 John is from what we say. Yeah, you know what, 0:30:40.680 --> 0:30:42.440 You have to just do it for yourself. You have 0:30:42.520 --> 0:30:45.760 to just go to your web the website and order it. 0:30:46.080 --> 0:30:48.960 Look at it online, look at it for men, look 0:30:49.000 --> 0:30:50.320 at it for women. If you want to buy it 0:30:50.360 --> 0:30:53.920 for a gift or whatever you want to do. I 0:30:53.960 --> 0:30:56.000 think we've said everything we can say of how good 0:30:56.000 --> 0:30:58.600 it looks, how good it feels, how that you can 0:30:58.640 --> 0:31:01.040 put it cowboys down the side. You can be like 0:31:01.120 --> 0:31:04.720 cheering on your team and no one really knows. Um, 0:31:05.240 --> 0:31:08.920 Tommy John, it's it's good. We're wearing it. I'm sure 0:31:09.040 --> 0:31:11.080 somebody out of the four people is probably wearing it 0:31:11.160 --> 0:31:15.480 right now, so probably even two. But make sure you 0:31:15.520 --> 0:31:18.120 do it for yourself. Tommy John dot com Forward slash Cowboys. 0:31:18.120 --> 0:31:23.280 It might even have it for kids, Tommy John. Sorry, 0:31:24.480 --> 0:31:26.120 like the way he said that, you were expecting him 0:31:26.120 --> 0:31:27.840 to come with a tagline after it, right, It's like, 0:31:28.040 --> 0:31:34.120 Tommy John, I mean better for your there, it is better, 0:31:34.440 --> 0:31:39.680 better behind than anybody. I don't know whatever. You're not 0:31:39.680 --> 0:31:46.840 gonna get hu speaking of playing from behind, Tommy John. Yea, yeah, 0:31:46.880 --> 0:31:49.600 all right, wow, what's going on? Yeah? All right, here 0:31:49.600 --> 0:31:51.440 we go. Um, I did want to get you guys. 0:31:51.440 --> 0:31:55.320 Opinions on des Bryant. It sounds like he has well 0:31:55.360 --> 0:31:57.360 we know he went to work out for the for 0:31:57.440 --> 0:32:00.320 the Saints, and it sounds like they are in the 0:32:00.360 --> 0:32:02.360 process of doing the deal. It sounds like it's pretty 0:32:02.440 --> 0:32:04.680 much everything but signed at this point, I think it 0:32:04.760 --> 0:32:06.480 might even be signed, might even be signed. He is 0:32:06.520 --> 0:32:09.000 now going to be a new Orleans Saints wide receiver, 0:32:09.400 --> 0:32:12.760 which means that the Cowboys on November twenty ninth will 0:32:12.840 --> 0:32:15.480 face Dez Bryant here at at and T Stadium. What 0:32:15.560 --> 0:32:20.080 are your thoughts. I'm I'm super excited to see what 0:32:20.120 --> 0:32:22.680 it looks like. This is. You know, we've been wondering 0:32:22.720 --> 0:32:25.760 what was going to happen with this for a long time. UM, 0:32:25.920 --> 0:32:27.920 even going back as far as April, I think all 0:32:27.960 --> 0:32:30.080 of us said that this is the type of situation 0:32:30.160 --> 0:32:32.520 that he could thrive in. Aaron green Bay and Aaron 0:32:32.600 --> 0:32:35.920 Rodgers was the other one. I did not know this. 0:32:36.040 --> 0:32:38.720 You know, the Saints drafted they have Ted Ginn and 0:32:38.760 --> 0:32:42.800 they drafted a kid named Trey Kwan. He got hurt 0:32:42.840 --> 0:32:45.120 and this kid, Trey Kwan Smith out of UCF has 0:32:45.160 --> 0:32:48.160 kind of taken over as the Z receiver. But I 0:32:48.240 --> 0:32:51.720 did not realize. UM, no receiver on the Saints roster 0:32:51.840 --> 0:32:54.680 other than Mike Thomas has more than twelve catches this year. 0:32:55.080 --> 0:32:58.600 But I don't know, he's really really good. But there's 0:32:58.640 --> 0:33:01.240 there's snaps to go around, is what I'm trying to say, like, 0:33:01.280 --> 0:33:04.040 there's you know, there's not this guy that you can't 0:33:04.080 --> 0:33:06.120 take off the field. So like I would imagine Dez 0:33:06.240 --> 0:33:10.280 is probably their number two receiver right away, really, I 0:33:10.760 --> 0:33:13.120 mean not this weekend. I would guess because he you know, 0:33:13.120 --> 0:33:15.680 he hasn't practiced yet. Assumption is that he can't be 0:33:15.720 --> 0:33:19.400 in shape enough to really play a huge amount of snaps. 0:33:19.440 --> 0:33:22.360 I wouldn't think, well that, but that's I guess. That's 0:33:22.400 --> 0:33:24.240 my point is if if they're none of their other 0:33:24.280 --> 0:33:27.000 receivers have more than twelve catches, like they can cycle 0:33:27.080 --> 0:33:29.560 him in just as easily as anybody else. No, I'm 0:33:29.560 --> 0:33:31.920 saying more just from his heath, like is he is 0:33:31.920 --> 0:33:33.960 he in enough? Is he in good enough shape to 0:33:33.960 --> 0:33:36.200 do it? I'm not saying that necessarily taking anybody off 0:33:36.200 --> 0:33:38.080 the field, as much as just when you've been sitting 0:33:38.520 --> 0:33:41.240 at home, can you be in the kind of shape 0:33:41.240 --> 0:33:42.800 that you need to be in to play a significant 0:33:42.880 --> 0:33:50.200 enough with the whole fitness your face? I don't. I 0:33:50.200 --> 0:33:55.560 don't buy Instagram a whole lot on his I bet you, 0:33:55.720 --> 0:33:57.200 Like I said, I doubt he plays. I think the 0:33:57.240 --> 0:33:59.880 Saints play the Bengals this weekend. I doubt he plays 0:34:00.040 --> 0:34:02.760 this weekend, but the game after that, he'll be ready 0:34:02.760 --> 0:34:06.080 for Cowboys. He'll definitely be ready for Cowboy. He'll be 0:34:06.120 --> 0:34:09.080 ready to play twenty five to forty snaps by the 0:34:09.120 --> 0:34:11.680 next game. Yeah, I agree with that. I can see 0:34:11.680 --> 0:34:15.400 that it's gonna be fascinating, Like, is Dez done? Is 0:34:15.440 --> 0:34:18.000 he not done? How well can he play? How well 0:34:18.040 --> 0:34:19.720 do the Saints need him to play in that offense 0:34:19.760 --> 0:34:22.680 anyway with all the weapons that they have. I'm I'm 0:34:22.719 --> 0:34:25.279 fascinated to see it as a football fan, as a 0:34:25.360 --> 0:34:29.160 Dez fan, as a Cowboys writer. You know, I think 0:34:29.680 --> 0:34:31.480 it's gonna be fascinating to watch. I want to see 0:34:31.520 --> 0:34:33.120 what it looks like. The great part of it is 0:34:33.239 --> 0:34:35.359 Desk can go there, and Desk can be a one 0:34:35.400 --> 0:34:37.439 trick pony, and if he does it well, it will 0:34:37.440 --> 0:34:40.360 make their team infinitely better. Because if you got a 0:34:40.360 --> 0:34:42.360 guy like Michael Thomas that right now teams try to 0:34:42.400 --> 0:34:45.080 double him, he still gets open and he still catches 0:34:45.080 --> 0:34:47.560 the ball. They have a running game with two really 0:34:47.560 --> 0:34:49.919 good running backs. And now if you can just add 0:34:49.920 --> 0:34:52.319 a dimension with Dez Bryant that gives you something down 0:34:52.360 --> 0:34:55.520 the field with those fifty fifty balls, that creates a 0:34:55.560 --> 0:34:58.080 whole different dynamic that teams now just have to respect him. 0:34:58.080 --> 0:35:00.239 It's what Teddy Gain usually provides for them. You just 0:35:00.239 --> 0:35:03.000 gotta respect him out there on the outside. And if 0:35:03.000 --> 0:35:04.880 you got to respect him, that just helps. A running 0:35:04.880 --> 0:35:07.239 game helps Michael Thomas like all the way around, it's 0:35:07.280 --> 0:35:09.120 a that's a great fit for them. I've only, like 0:35:09.120 --> 0:35:10.919 I said, they're only two teams I thought were great fits. 0:35:10.960 --> 0:35:12.719 I think this is one of them. Maybe three New 0:35:12.800 --> 0:35:14.759 England too. In New England, I think you got to 0:35:14.760 --> 0:35:16.400 be a much more disciplined route runner. I look at 0:35:16.400 --> 0:35:18.040 a guy like Chad Johnson when he went there, he 0:35:18.160 --> 0:35:20.480 burned out quick. Yeah that's fair, you know, it does. 0:35:20.560 --> 0:35:25.440 I mean, I'm sorry, I don't know. I'd rather just 0:35:26.400 --> 0:35:28.160 not say a whole lot about it because I don't 0:35:28.200 --> 0:35:30.680 I don't know what he's doing. I mean, this is 0:35:30.719 --> 0:35:33.640 not about the Saints. Is maybe it's a good fit 0:35:33.719 --> 0:35:35.879 for the Saints, but it's a thousand percent good fit 0:35:35.920 --> 0:35:38.880 for Dez, which is what he's looking for. Um. You know, 0:35:39.040 --> 0:35:41.400 I think it made it. He made it pretty clear 0:35:41.440 --> 0:35:43.920 that this was all about him this time around, was 0:35:44.000 --> 0:35:46.839 getting this deal. I don't think he was signing with 0:35:46.880 --> 0:35:49.520 anybody that didn't play the Cowboys, and I don't think 0:35:49.520 --> 0:35:51.520 he was signing with anyone that that was didn't have 0:35:51.520 --> 0:35:54.080 a good quarterback and a good offense. So this is quarterbacks, 0:35:54.160 --> 0:35:57.080 Yeah right, this is about him and maybe a chance 0:35:57.120 --> 0:36:00.239 to go get a ring. What I what I really 0:36:00.239 --> 0:36:03.080 wonder more about it is Sean Payton's future in New Orleans. 0:36:03.239 --> 0:36:05.960 This is what makes me kind of wonder more about him. 0:36:06.440 --> 0:36:08.680 I think he's going all in for this year. I 0:36:09.000 --> 0:36:11.239 don't know if he's I don't know this, but I 0:36:11.280 --> 0:36:13.040 just don't think he'll be the coach for the Saints 0:36:13.080 --> 0:36:15.640 next year. So I think he's doing this like man, 0:36:15.800 --> 0:36:18.200 this is just let's just put everything we have to 0:36:18.239 --> 0:36:20.880 go win this thing right now. And that's kind of 0:36:21.120 --> 0:36:23.480 my first thought about him going to get Dez is 0:36:23.520 --> 0:36:25.960 for that region. But for Deaz, it's just like, hey, 0:36:26.239 --> 0:36:27.840 I want to I want to show the Cowboys what 0:36:27.880 --> 0:36:30.239 I can do, but I'm not going to anybody just 0:36:30.280 --> 0:36:32.560 to play and run around and struggle like we're gonna, 0:36:32.560 --> 0:36:34.399 I mean, on top of it to eight and one 0:36:34.480 --> 0:36:37.520 and then we'll talk. Um. It's interesting to note too, 0:36:37.680 --> 0:36:40.239 is you know we said all along Daz was holding 0:36:40.239 --> 0:36:41.839 out for a one year deal so he could test 0:36:41.840 --> 0:36:45.320 free agency, and we were swelling like, why hasn't he signed? 0:36:45.360 --> 0:36:49.000 Why is he waiting? Maybe he's waiting because nobody was 0:36:49.040 --> 0:36:51.279 willing to give him that until you know, at this 0:36:51.320 --> 0:36:53.120 point in the season, they're like, all right, it's only 0:36:53.400 --> 0:36:56.319 there's only seven games left anyway, so yeah, well sign. 0:36:56.400 --> 0:36:58.600 It wasn't a one year deal. Yeah, I believe that's 0:36:58.600 --> 0:37:00.520 what they're saying. I don't know how much money, but 0:37:00.560 --> 0:37:04.600 it's only one year. So eight games. Make your best 0:37:04.600 --> 0:37:06.560 impression and see what I see what they don't. I 0:37:06.560 --> 0:37:08.360 don't think they have anything to lose with this. No, 0:37:08.520 --> 0:37:10.760 I don't think in half a season he can disrupt 0:37:10.760 --> 0:37:13.000 their locker room. I don't think he can cost problems 0:37:13.000 --> 0:37:15.319 in half a season that breaks up their chemistry. Like, 0:37:15.360 --> 0:37:16.480 I just think at the end of the day, this 0:37:16.520 --> 0:37:20.520 is a no lose for them. I'll be interested. I don't. Yeah, 0:37:20.560 --> 0:37:22.439 you're right, it's only eight games. It's probably not enough 0:37:22.440 --> 0:37:24.600 time to break up their locker room. But like Michael 0:37:24.640 --> 0:37:27.880 Thomas loves him some him too, he is you know, 0:37:27.880 --> 0:37:30.279 do you think maybe the influence could possibly create some 0:37:30.520 --> 0:37:34.320 or just I mean on the road is yeah, that's you. 0:37:34.480 --> 0:37:37.120 I saw somebody already made a meme about that where 0:37:37.160 --> 0:37:39.520 it was Mike Thomas on the phone and then they 0:37:39.560 --> 0:37:41.759 had Dez Bryant at the telethon that we did for 0:37:41.840 --> 0:37:44.799 Harvey relief last year. Yeah, so what you're doing. I 0:37:44.840 --> 0:37:47.240 think for eight games, I think they can co exist. 0:37:47.320 --> 0:37:50.120 But those are those are two really big egos that 0:37:50.160 --> 0:37:52.920 are sharing the same room. Now. I'm really curious to 0:37:52.960 --> 0:37:57.160 see and excited and anxious to seem to see him 0:37:57.200 --> 0:38:03.760 play three Sorry, go talk, what do you want? Go Amber, 0:38:06.040 --> 0:38:10.200 I'm excited to see him play, to see him play 0:38:10.320 --> 0:38:13.960 because I want not only to see how he performs, 0:38:14.040 --> 0:38:16.880 but if he does well, that's gonna give me another 0:38:17.120 --> 0:38:20.719 whole different idea of the Cowboys offense and what this 0:38:20.880 --> 0:38:24.400 team is in the coaching and even Dak Prescott, because 0:38:24.680 --> 0:38:28.000 if I start seeing him succeed although when you started 0:38:28.080 --> 0:38:30.719 remembering the place, I'm not even gonna look at him, 0:38:31.360 --> 0:38:37.239 Nick freaking rude. Come on, you know why, I just 0:38:37.280 --> 0:38:39.200 forget it. I don't even know what you're talking about. 0:38:39.239 --> 0:38:42.840 Let's let's go. I'm saying, if he succeeds where he's playing, 0:38:43.360 --> 0:38:46.120 that's gonna give me a whole different outlook of this offense. 0:38:46.160 --> 0:38:54.440 It's just gonna add on to what just Literally, the 0:38:54.560 --> 0:38:58.600 Cowboys have had a narrative since February, and it already 0:38:58.600 --> 0:39:00.759 doesn't look that great because they had to go get 0:39:00.760 --> 0:39:03.040 Amari Cooper, like their whole we don't need a number 0:39:03.040 --> 0:39:05.480 one receiver thing doesn't look great right now. Wow, if 0:39:05.560 --> 0:39:08.359 Daz goes to another offense and plays great, they're gonna 0:39:08.360 --> 0:39:10.680 look even worse. Right, I was going to agree with 0:39:10.760 --> 0:39:14.760 that because Des took eight or nine years still still 0:39:14.800 --> 0:39:17.200 hasn't figured out the Cowboys offense. So let's be clear. 0:39:17.360 --> 0:39:19.360 He could not play the slot. He could not be 0:39:19.400 --> 0:39:22.880 a slot receiver because he really didn't ever understand and 0:39:22.920 --> 0:39:24.680 figure that out. So if you're right, if he goes 0:39:24.719 --> 0:39:27.360 to New Orleans, goes there and they figure out something 0:39:27.440 --> 0:39:30.160 for him, now he's not making sixteen million a year, 0:39:30.200 --> 0:39:32.879 so you can justify his role in a different way. 0:39:33.080 --> 0:39:35.239 He can be a one trick pony or whatever you said. 0:39:35.560 --> 0:39:37.880 He couldn't have really, he couldn't have done that here 0:39:37.880 --> 0:39:40.080 with the contract they gave him. But if he goes 0:39:40.120 --> 0:39:42.960 and picks this up rather quickly, I think it'll go 0:39:43.120 --> 0:39:46.160 it'll say a lot to how much teaching and coaching 0:39:46.160 --> 0:39:47.880 there was involved with what he was doing here. But 0:39:48.160 --> 0:39:50.360 let's also be clear, I think one of the things, 0:39:50.360 --> 0:39:52.920 and I know I said it, I assume I'm pretty 0:39:52.960 --> 0:39:56.399 sure you guys agreed and said the same things that 0:39:56.600 --> 0:39:58.640 when it comes to Dez, like, part of the reason 0:39:58.640 --> 0:40:01.240 the Cowboys let him go is not necess serily because 0:40:01.280 --> 0:40:04.360 he's a worst player. It's because with the current construction 0:40:04.400 --> 0:40:08.279 of the team, he didn't fit the quarterback and the 0:40:08.360 --> 0:40:10.920 offensive coordinator couldn't figure out how to use him the 0:40:11.000 --> 0:40:13.120 right way for whatever reason, whether it's because he couldn't 0:40:13.120 --> 0:40:14.600 get him the ball the right way, but because they 0:40:14.600 --> 0:40:16.680 couldn't get him the ball enough, because of the philosophy 0:40:16.680 --> 0:40:19.319 of the offense, whatever the case might have been, they 0:40:19.360 --> 0:40:21.200 couldn't figure out how to use him the best way. 0:40:21.280 --> 0:40:24.880 That didn't necessarily mean he wasn't still a capable player. 0:40:25.200 --> 0:40:27.319 What we're about to find out right now is is 0:40:27.360 --> 0:40:30.319 he still a capable player? And if he is, that 0:40:30.400 --> 0:40:32.400 still doesn't mean the Cowboys should have kept him, because 0:40:32.400 --> 0:40:35.120 it means the Cowboys maybe still just couldn't use him 0:40:35.320 --> 0:40:37.719 in that way. Right well, I think that still goes 0:40:37.719 --> 0:40:40.439 back to the whole coaching thing again, and again, yeah, 0:40:40.480 --> 0:40:43.160 some pieces might not work with while you're trying to do. 0:40:43.320 --> 0:40:45.719 But if that's what you have and he's still part 0:40:45.719 --> 0:40:49.280 of the better pieces in your puzzle, you still as 0:40:49.320 --> 0:40:52.440 a coach find a way to make it work and 0:40:52.520 --> 0:40:55.840 figure out how to get him moving. But I just 0:40:55.880 --> 0:40:59.200 think that either way, well unless he does horrible over 0:40:59.239 --> 0:41:01.440 there with the same and then all the way round 0:41:01.440 --> 0:41:06.640 of it. Kay, alright, that was where right, which totally 0:41:06.680 --> 0:41:09.480 totally possible. Yeah, I mean, let this can go a 0:41:09.520 --> 0:41:12.520 lot of different way. It could, It could, but I 0:41:12.640 --> 0:41:15.680 just I think it's it's a he held on. He 0:41:15.760 --> 0:41:17.920 had the patience, I guess, to hold on for ten weeks, 0:41:17.920 --> 0:41:19.680 and I think he put himself in as good of 0:41:19.719 --> 0:41:22.319 a position as he possibly could. Let's real quick, before 0:41:22.320 --> 0:41:24.200 we in the show, Let's get a tall call from 0:41:24.200 --> 0:41:27.839 Tony in Colorado. Tony, what up? Just taking the call. 0:41:28.360 --> 0:41:31.440 Definitely enjoy the show, Thank you, And it's glad to 0:41:31.520 --> 0:41:36.400 hear nick Uh make the point about Crawford being inside 0:41:36.400 --> 0:41:39.560 on the defensive line. I talked to Brian brought us 0:41:39.600 --> 0:41:43.360 about this before, and he always disagreed. In my opinion, 0:41:44.120 --> 0:41:48.880 Crawford cannot bend and get down like a Gregory or 0:41:49.040 --> 0:41:53.400 Lawrence or Armstrong or when we had Tapper. Um. I 0:41:53.440 --> 0:41:55.920 think having a big guy like that should be disruptive 0:41:56.000 --> 0:41:58.800 and push back the U, the center and the guards 0:41:59.040 --> 0:42:03.520 on the offensive line. And I just have a question, 0:42:03.680 --> 0:42:06.680 since I don't have the insight intel like you guys do, 0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:11.240 has there ever been any talk about bringing Romo back 0:42:11.360 --> 0:42:17.440 as an offensive coordinator if Lennonhan gets, you know, displaced 0:42:17.480 --> 0:42:20.120 at the end of the year. Okay, thanks for the call. 0:42:20.200 --> 0:42:25.319 I'll answer that that part Tony Romo is enjoying being 0:42:25.800 --> 0:42:31.600 like away from football and when you're a coordinator, like 0:42:31.719 --> 0:42:35.400 you're you're here for like fifteen sixteen hours a day 0:42:35.960 --> 0:42:39.560 every day, long hours and stuff. I think there was 0:42:39.600 --> 0:42:42.480 an Instagram picture of him on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, 0:42:42.520 --> 0:42:45.480 like on his couch, like sitting there watching You're not 0:42:45.520 --> 0:42:47.600 doing that as a coordinator. You're not playing golf. I 0:42:47.920 --> 0:42:49.680 just don't want to work that hard. I can't think 0:42:49.680 --> 0:42:51.480 of a single reason why he would do that. I 0:42:51.520 --> 0:42:54.960 don't unless he just loved to actually the challenge of 0:42:55.000 --> 0:42:57.839 actually going and being a coordinator. But I don't see 0:42:57.840 --> 0:42:59.520 why he would want to do that from certainly from 0:42:59.520 --> 0:43:02.680 the standpoint and of quality of life. He ever did, though. 0:43:02.840 --> 0:43:05.200 I was told this, if he ever decided to be 0:43:05.200 --> 0:43:07.320 a coach, he would be a defensive coordinator. There you go, 0:43:07.600 --> 0:43:09.200 he would not be an offensive coordinator to be a 0:43:09.200 --> 0:43:11.319 defensive cord. Think about how he calls the game. He's 0:43:11.360 --> 0:43:14.240 telling you what's gonna happen offensively, what are they thinking 0:43:14.320 --> 0:43:16.759 right now? That makes him a great defensive coordinator to 0:43:16.880 --> 0:43:19.759 be able to combat right The story the story that 0:43:19.800 --> 0:43:24.440 I've heard, and Dez would play Madden religiously. He plays 0:43:24.440 --> 0:43:27.279 it all the time, tells everybody how good he is. 0:43:27.800 --> 0:43:31.760 He played Romo, who doesn't really play it. Romo smoked 0:43:31.840 --> 0:43:34.200 him because on defense he knew what to player. And 0:43:34.239 --> 0:43:36.880 this is Madden. I mean, this is just like, you know, 0:43:37.239 --> 0:43:40.480 fake football or whatever. I just think you're you're seeing 0:43:40.560 --> 0:43:42.680 the flip side of it. You know. John Gruden was 0:43:42.800 --> 0:43:46.040 worshiped as like this god of football when he was 0:43:46.120 --> 0:43:50.120 on TV talking about it and doing commercials. The reality 0:43:50.239 --> 0:43:53.480 is not as fun, Yeah, it's I mean, you're working 0:43:53.560 --> 0:43:56.400 ten times harder, doesn't mean your team's gonna be good 0:43:56.640 --> 0:43:59.160 and people don't like you if you're not winning. Tony 0:43:59.239 --> 0:44:01.160 Romo gets to work. I mean, what does he work 0:44:01.239 --> 0:44:03.759 during football season? Like forty hours a week, Like he's 0:44:03.800 --> 0:44:05.560 got to watch the Sweet Gig, He's got to watch 0:44:05.640 --> 0:44:07.719 tape of the teams he's covering. He's got to go 0:44:07.760 --> 0:44:09.920 in on Friday and Saturday and do interviews with the 0:44:09.960 --> 0:44:11.720 guys and then called the game. And then he spends 0:44:11.719 --> 0:44:13.760 the rest of the week at home with his family 0:44:14.120 --> 0:44:17.520 and he gets to do Corona and whatever and Sketcher's commercials, 0:44:17.640 --> 0:44:22.440 and people think he's the freaking man because his football expertise. 0:44:22.520 --> 0:44:23.960 I'm not trying to hate on him, but like it's 0:44:23.960 --> 0:44:25.759 not put to the test in the sense that he's 0:44:25.760 --> 0:44:28.600 not winning and losing games. It's like the best job 0:44:28.640 --> 0:44:31.400 in the world, and I just I can't imagine that 0:44:31.400 --> 0:44:37.560 he would leave that for all of the work. So no, 0:44:37.719 --> 0:44:39.879 I don't see that happening. And if it does happen, 0:44:40.000 --> 0:44:41.600 it won't be any time in the near Fie. It 0:44:41.600 --> 0:44:44.000 would have to be because he just wants that challenge, 0:44:44.000 --> 0:44:45.720 Like it would just have to be a life challenge, 0:44:45.760 --> 0:44:47.359 like hey, I want to go do this to see 0:44:47.360 --> 0:44:48.880 how good I can be, And that would be the 0:44:48.960 --> 0:44:51.080 only reason that it would make sense he left football 0:44:51.080 --> 0:44:52.680 and got put to the front of the line in 0:44:52.960 --> 0:44:55.880 the broadcasting world. I mean, which doesn't happen, very awful, 0:44:56.239 --> 0:44:58.480 especially for both those guys. That to happen, and it 0:44:58.520 --> 0:45:00.839 does happen if you play for the Cowboy, can happen 0:45:00.880 --> 0:45:03.040 if you play for the Camp. Real quick about Crawford though, 0:45:03.160 --> 0:45:05.840 like yes, I said that about him being in the inside, 0:45:05.840 --> 0:45:08.920 but remember they don't pass every single play. Those defensive 0:45:09.000 --> 0:45:12.000 ends for all is you know the bending and you 0:45:12.040 --> 0:45:14.080 know that you need to do to get off the edge. 0:45:14.080 --> 0:45:16.160 You also need to stop the run. So that's what 0:45:16.200 --> 0:45:19.000 makes to Marcus Lawrence made. It's what made DeMarcus Ware 0:45:19.080 --> 0:45:21.600 so good that they could stop the run. So that's 0:45:21.600 --> 0:45:23.920 what Crawford gives you when he plays ends, his ability 0:45:23.960 --> 0:45:26.440 to stop the run. So it's not just about getting 0:45:26.440 --> 0:45:28.560 off the edge. They need those those defensive vents. Like 0:45:28.560 --> 0:45:30.839 you said, Taco, Doran's arm strong. Those guys they need 0:45:30.840 --> 0:45:32.759 to Gregory and they need to stop the run as well. 0:45:32.800 --> 0:45:34.960 All right, guys, appreciate you joining us back tomorrow. We'll 0:45:34.960 --> 0:45:37.200 have more talk for you. We're definitely gonna talk about 0:45:37.200 --> 0:45:39.640 the Eagles defense. I'll be a lot to talk about there. 0:45:39.680 --> 0:45:41.319 Dave will give us his breakdown till then for Nick, 0:45:41.360 --> 0:45:43.719 even Dave helm and Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagles and 0:45:43.719 --> 0:45:46.160 this has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot 0:45:46.160 --> 0:45:51.280 Com Radio. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys 0:45:51.320 --> 0:45:53.959 dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.